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Of course you can't decide whether it's useful to the payer. You can and should ask yourself why someone would pay for it, and then decide according to your own personal criteria w…

4) energy and materials scarcity and compounding ecological externalities this of course affecting not only the Western regimes but technocratic rule everywhere

I'm not endorsing victimhood or saying that Bangladesh is poor because the US is rich. It was badly phrased if that is how it reads, for that I apologize. I'm saying the US does wh…

Yes, so many.

> This may be true to some extent, but what I dislike about this idea is that to many it implies that human flourishing is impossible without suffering exported elsewhere To some d…

The life possible in San Francisco is possible in large part because of the entropy it externalizes to "somewhere else", a place many in SF and the US more generally prefer to igno…

Can you characterize the binary choice in your last sentence in more detail? I don't see how one excludes the other

Strongly agree. Our beginning to grasp how it works even adds to the miracle! But what we're beginning to understand we're also destroying far more rapidly even as we devote more a…

On what grounds do you think it likely that this phenomenon is at all related to consciousness? The latter is hardly understood. We can identify correlates in beings with constitut…

This also evidences that in this case, it's more developers of handbrake just know their audience rather than a real design failure. Maybe they'd prefer to keep the user base delib…

Fewer every year. If 3I/A is ET flyby, perhaps our progress trading primitive simulacra for biological miracles will satisfy it that we pose no great risk, annihilation being costl…

Way bigger and deeper than that, there was some slack in the energy situation remaining at that point. Not any more.

You don't consider an application that is designed specifically to siphon all the attention it can to be a perverted implementation? Surprise, it's harder for people to self-govern…

> A chat like this is not a solution though, it is an indicator that our societies have issues Correct, many of which are directly, a skeptic might even argue deliberately, exacerb…

> legislation Perhaps more generally phrased as governance Yes, the answer is not some business plan by which some can dodge disaster in an untrustworthy market, the answer is to r…

Painting opposition as "sour grapes" is an extraordinarily bad faith take.

"Decentralize it" isn't a bad instinct in many contexts but I am sure you are capable of conjuring a counterexample to every one of the cases you mention with a modicum of effort/i…

Apologies, not meant to be smug